[locknitpicker]

> This seems extremely confused. The copyright system does not have a way to grant these permissions because the material is not covered under copyright!

This opinion is simplistic. LLMs are trained with pre-existing content, and their output directly reflects their training corpus. This means LLMs can generate output that matches verbatim existing work. And that work can very well be subjected to copyright.

[rho_soul_kg_m3]

Language models are good at translation and retrieval. This also extends to computer languages. LLMs translate from GPL to other licenses the same way Google translate turns French to English, except that the source material is implicitly stored in the LLM.

[em-bee]

this is disputed. see my comment here, especially the stackexchange links: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=47557250